David Eagleman: The Brain and The Law
[34:16] It’s still very much a work in progress trying to unravel the paradox of free will. There’s so many …
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A Summary of Epigenetics
[9:28] Hank & his clone Circus Hank explain the power of epigenetics, which studies the factors that determine how …
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Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime
[12:12] Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with Physaru…
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Rationality Rules: Homosexuality is Unnatural – Debunked
[7:53] This is Homosexuality is Unnatural – Debunked. [Video and text source: Rationality Rules YouTube channel]…
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Helen Pearson: Lessons from the longest study on human development
[12:25] For the past 70 years, scientists in Britain have been studying thousands of children through their lives to fi…
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Richard Dawkins: “The Magic of Reality: How we know what’s really true”
[1:07:49] This Authors@ event was part of Google London’s ‘Science Friday’ event – a famil…
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Making CRISPR Cas9 work in the brain
[3:07] [Video and text source: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience YouTube channel]…
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CRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
[6:43] We look into the future. Now that genetic engineering tools like CRISPR allow us to edit our genes, how will that i…
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Michael Shermer: Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
[7:55] Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song “Heaven is a Place on Earth”? It&…
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Nina Jablonski: The Biology of Skin Color
[18:57] Penn State University anthropologist Dr. Nina Jablonski explains how different shades of skin color arose as …
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